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From memory, I speak; so there's room for error.
However re what was too much or not, I recall as a very young boy listening to the fight in Yankee Stadium for the light heavyweight champion's title, and later saw films of highlights. It was a extremely humid night; Sugar Ray "ran out of gas." He was kik'n that white boy's ***! The weather's heat and humidity got to him and I think he had to quit. !3th Round? True, weight wise he was at best a heavy middleweight. Other than that he was not mismatched. Bcause he didn't fight that weight again does not mean, definitively, that it was due to weight difference. Or that Joey Maxim was a better fighter.
Natural progression, what's that? I've seen films of Jack Johnson fights and from him to whoever I see little if any similarities of him and Sugar Ray Robinson. Which moves did he "take" from J. Johnson?
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